Did your heating boiler inspection and repair look like this
Did your heating boiler inspection and repair look like this
Another boiler on the verge of breaking down, and yet another golden opportunity for a charlatan to take away your hard-earned money. As the helpless owner of a broken central heating boiler, you can do nothing more than to become a victim of another dodgy engineers mindful games. It’s what keeps your home warm and cosy but you probably have no idea how that Vaillant, Worcester or Baxi works. The engineers can easily take you for a ride if you don’t know much about the boiler, so it is important to understand few things about boiler servicing. Of course you are not going to get a CORGI registration for that but it will make sure that the gas engineers do not fool you and you are able to ask them relevant questions.
Use the following guide as a checklist when your plumber starts work.
- Has an analysis of the central heating boiler flue been undertaken?.
- Has a pipework inspection been carried out? Ventilation should be normal and confirmed as so.
- Defective parts should be substituted with new ones, not second hand gas boiler spares.
- Each and every component of the heating boiler must be checked and tested.
- Disassembly and cleaning of all key components.
For you to be fully satisfied that the job has been done properly, the heating engineer should do all the above enlisted things. Make sure that the repair company holds CORGI certification even before you call them up. You can notice the CORGI logo in their advert in the Yellow pages, companies which have a better reputation and are more experienced tend to have a bigger advert. There is a limit to how long a con artist can sustain his scam after all. However, there are always new rogues waiting to fill the old ones’ boots, so always be cautious before contracting a heating boiler service and maintenance engineer. In this site you will not only find more advice to help you with heating boiler maintenance, but also up to date promotions on heating goods endorsed by professionals in the trade.